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'ATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT LUKE HOXVARD, OF LUTON, COUNTY OF BEDFORD, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR WIRING BOTTLES.

SPEQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,054, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed May :3, 188-1. Serial No. 130,315. (No model.) I Patented in England March 2, 1880, No. 996.

ful Improvements in Machinery for Securing Aerated Waters and other Liquids in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is applicable both to bottles closed by stoppers and also to those closed by corks.

For securing the cork or stopper after the bottle has been charged with the aerated water or other liquid, the bottle is placed in the apparatus for wiring it. The wiressay four in number-are fed to the place required by rollers or other feed-gear, and, either by the turning of a handle or by self-acting gear, two wires being passed through guides across and beyond the top of the cork, and a wire similarly passed along and beyond each side of the bottleneck, the wires are taken hold of by nippers and held in suitable position with the bottle, a knife or shears cutting off the wires to the required length. The ends of the wires are then seized by holders, which twist them together, and thus fasten them; or instead of front elevation of the upper part of the same,

and Fig. 3 a plan. Fig. 4. is a face view of the wire guide, shearing-plate, and the shearingblade. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the same parts and of the nippers and sliding block for-the bottle and wire-cutting mechanism, and Fig. 4" is a section at the line a; .r of Fig. i. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of one of the twisting appliances; and Fig. 6 an end view of one of the twisters.

The wires for securing the corks pass from a reel or reels through suitable guides. The wires in this case are taken to be four in num- The bottle is placed on a rising bed and between guides on a rocking standard, and by depression of a trcadle the bottle is raised, and during its upward travel. comes in contact with a block or slide, and the raising of this bythe bottle causes the wires to be cut to the required length, and also closes a pair of nippers or jaws, the action of which presses the wires around the cork and around the neck of the bottle. The treadle being still held depressed, the pivoted or rocking standard is brought forward together with the bottle, and by this action the loose or projecting wires on each side of the neck are caused to go into slits or openings formed in the inner ends'of a pair of spindles, which I term holders or twistcrsfl which are rotated by a crankhandle and suitable gearing. The wires having been thus twisted and the crank made secure the rocking standard is moved and the bottle taken away and a fresh one inserted, and so on.

A is the main frame or stanchion, and B is the pivoted or rocking standard.

Ois the block or rising bed on which the bottles rest. It is secured to a rod, a, sliding through a guide or guides, a, on the standard B, and it is raised or lowered by the treadle D. The standard B at its lower end is pivoted at Z). The frame A, at the upper part, carries the wire reels 0, d, e, and f, and other apparatus for cutting off the required lengths of wire. The rocking standard B carries the appliance for pressing the wires over the cork and around the neck of the bottle. The wires pass from their reels 0, (l, e, andf into a corresponding number of circumferential grooves, c d e f, in a drum, 0, and said wires are fed forward by the rotation of the handle M and geanwheels M M". The wires are prevented from getting out of these grooves by a frictionrollcr, x, pressed by the spring 0 upon the periphery of the drum c and revolving in hearings in the bracket A of frame A. There is a screw to adjust the pressure of the spring 0 upon the roller x.

The wires pass under the bracket part A of the frame A, then through four holes in the shearing-plate E, (shown separately in front elevation at Fig. 4, and in side elevation at Fig. 4.2) and from here the wires project the required distance over the top of the bottlecork and underneath the sliding block F, on each side of which are the pairs of nippers h IOC h, which at their lower ends have openings to allow the wires to be fed freely through them, and which, by their closing or scissors-like action, red ucc thesize ofsaid openings, and so the pressing or nipping action is effected. The two middle wires require to be longer than the two outer wires, and in order to produce this difference in. the amolint of feed, I form the two outer grooves, f and c, in the feed-pulley c", with flat parts in three places of the circumference, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, so that the feed of the two outer wires is lessened to that extent. In the upward travel of the bottle it takes with it the two inner wires, which go over'the cork, the two other wires remaining on each side of the neck, as shown in Fig. 4. A further depression of the treadle D causes the block F to rise and the spring F to be compressed, as shown in Fig. 4".

H is a conical fixed block on the topof the rocking standard B, which, when the block F rises, causes the pairs of nippers h 71/, which have inclined upper ends, to open above their pivot h and to close at their lower ends; but previous to this closure the head of the pivot h engages with a projection, e, on the head of the moving shear-plate E, the raising of which effectually cuts off all four wires, the shearing being effected between the inclined edge of the stationary shearing-blade g and the moving shearing-plate E, (shown also in Fig. 4 in front view and in Fig. 4 in side view,) and by additional application of power to the treadle the lower ends of the nippers h h are caused to close and to leave the four ends of the wires gathered together, as shown. in Fig. 4.", and projecting from the sides of the bottle-neck. Spring E is employed for returning the shearing-frame to its normal position, and springs h are used to close the nippers h h at their upper end. The next operation for the completion of the fastening is to pull forward the rocking standard B into the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, and the collected projecting ends of the wires consequently come in openings 2' t, formed in the ends of the spindles or twisters k k, and by turning the handle N and wheels J J the twisting is effected. Fig. 5 is a detached vertical longitudinal sectional view of one of these twisters 7c and parts connected therewith, and Fig. 6 is an end view of the twister k. The ends of the twister 7c are slightly conical, and the rotation of the twisters by the crank-handle N and pairs of gear-wheels J J causes the ends of the wires to be twisted, and at the same time the pair of clamps K are closed by the attendant, and the fact of the clamps clipping over the conical ends k of the twisters causes the said twisters to slide inward toward the bottle, (and thus suiting themselves to the exact pressure required for the twisting of the wires,) and consequcntl y to prevent the breaking of the wires.

t is a spring to draw back the spindle to its normal position, and t a spring to force the parts 7c 70 apart again.

The wiring for corks or stoppers of bottles, composed of four pieces of wire with twisted ends, and with or without an additional loop formed with said wiring, is not claimed here in, as it forms the subject of a separate ap plication for Letters Patent filed March 30, 1885, Serial No. 160,565.

- I claim as my invention 1. In a bottle-wiring machine, the combination of rollers for feeding and guides for guiding the wires, a treadle, and means for raising and bringing the bottle against a stop, so that two wires are over the cork and one at each side of the bottle-neck, means for cutting off the wires upon one side, and means, substantially as specified, for nipping and twisting the wires together at both ends.

2. A bottle-wiring machine consisting, es-- sentially, of means for feeding the wires through a guideplate over the cork and along.- side the bottle-neck, in combination with a rest for the bottle, a rocking lever and rod connecting with the rest for raising the bottle against a yielding block and fixed stop, shearing-plates for cutting off the wires, pinchers for collecting and nipping the wires, and spindles for twisting the wires together, substantially as set forth.

3. In a bottle-wiring machine, a movable shearing-plate, E, having holes for guiding the wires, the sliding block F, pivot If, and projection e", for operating said plate when the bottle is raised, in combination with a stationary blade, 9, for shearing off the wires,

substantially as set forth.

4- In a bottle-wiring machine, the bottlerest 0, in combination with a yielding block, F, and fixed stop I-I, nippers h h, for gathering the wires, and means, substantially as specified, for cutting them off, substantially as set forth.

5. In a bottle-wiring machine, the twisterclamp K, in combination with spindles 70 It, in halves, and having intermediate spaces at t for receiving the wires, gears and a handle for rotating such spindles, and the springs i and i substantially as set forth.

6. In a bottle-wiring machine, the pair of nippers h h, having a pivot, h", and inclined upper ends, in combination with the conical fixed stop H, for closing the opposite ends of the nippers, and collecting and holding the wires near their ends, substantially as set forth.

ROBERT LUKE HOWARD.

\Vitnesses:

.J. \VATT,

G. W. WnsrLnY,

Both of 17 Graccclzm'ch St, London.

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